linux noob running pop_os on a RTX 5070, AMD CPU-- is there a way to know, without actually installing it, whether this version will bork my system and force me to reinstall linux, like the previous two versions?
Not familiar with that distro so I would just pop into their forums and ask. I'm personally running Bazzite and have had no issues with the past couple of driver updates.
Weird, what was the issue exactly?
after installing them from the package manager, on reboot the OS just wouldn't recognize the GPU--i just assumed the specific GPU is still too new to have linux drivers yet, so have been using whatever nvidia drivers came with the distro (pop_os was the only distro i could get to work with it ootb)
I think you'll have to be more specific. Where did you get the driver from? Did you add any Nvidia repos or are you using only the vanilla popOS repos? Or did the the official repos push an update that doesn't (didn't) work? In that case, definetly ask in their support forum and maybe open an issue.
Not too familiar with that specific distro, but it is usually a bad idea to add different repos unless you know what you're doing. Getting the drivers through the official repos might be a couple weeks (possibly months) late, but it will always be the safest bet.
So quick question were you able to get to a command line when the driver wasn't recognizing your GPU?
not even that... it was just a solid unblinking cursor underscore, no prompt, no response to any input. had to boot from a usb drive and refresh the OS
Dang, that's rough. So I have not a clue why it would be doing that on a simple driver update unless the driver got corrupted. I would try booting directly to the command line next time if it happens again, maybe try booting the recovery partition. Sounds like you'd be able to get a terminal there and then you can use apt purge to remove and reinstall and see if that helps.
I've had to do the apt purge route myself for a few failed updates myself, mostly odd little application updates, and that clears up the issues.
Good luck!
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